Moroccan scrub a dub

I visited a Hummam, public bath house this past weekend.  It was an experience.  There are separate Baths for men and women, of course.  It starts with stripping down to your shorts and going to the sweat room with your water bucket.  The floor is really hot so you need to have sandals.  You stand in the room until sweating profusely then lather up with a special black soap that looks like cat poop.  After you are good and soapy you go into room two.  Here it is not quite as hot but still very humid.  There are no seats.  You wash a place on the floor, all tile, walls too.  You lay down and for 20 Dh, about 2.50 US have the Ksaal (Scrubber man) Do his thing.  They take a special glove like brillo pad and scrub your body very hard.  Ouch.  This gets all the dead skin off you, feels like some of the live skin too.  They get everywhere, legs, arms, back front, face, except the family jewels.  "Hey watch where your going there."  Laying on the hot floor is relaxing but you will not fall asleep, that is for sure.  They flip you over and do both sides.  Then comes the wash down with water.  It is HOT.  OWW-Owww.  I paid for this?  Next comes the second scrub down where they remove all the dead skin from the first scrub.  Then comes the second wash down. The process ends with a bucket bath you do yourself.  It was definitely part of the cultural experience.  I tried to take pictures for you but everyone was yelling at me.  I guess they did not want those on the Internet.  lol.  Well worth the experience.  You feel really good after it is all over.